1st NFDI4Energy Conference 2024
1st NFDI4Energy Conference 2024
Hanover on 20. – 21.02.2024
The 1st NFDI4Energy conference “Bringing the community of energy research data management together” took place in the Leibnizhaus in Hanover on 20. – 21.02.2024. The conference was organized by these organizers. The whole program of the conference can be found below.

Chairs
General Chair
Astrid Nieße (University of Oldenburg)
Technical Program Chair
- Thomas Wolgast (University of Oldenburg)
- Stephan Ferenz (University of Oldenburg)
- Oliver Werth (OFFIS e. V. – Institute for Information Technology)
Publication Chair
Thomas Wolgast, thomas.wolgast@uol.de (University of Oldenburg)
Poster Chair
Alexandro Steinert, alexandro.steinert@offis.de (OFFIS e. V. – Institute for Information Technology)
Steering Committee
covered by NFDI4Energy in the NFDI association
Technical Program Committee
Wolfgang Süß (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie KIT)
Astrid Nieße (University of Oldenburg)
Anke Weidlich (University of Freiburg)
Carsten Hoyer-Klick (DLR)
Christoph Goebel (TU München)
Dorothea Iglezakis (University of Stuttgart)
Felix Engel (Technische Informationsbibliothek TIB)
Franziska Hoffart (Sociological Research Institut Göttingen SOFI e.V.)
Joanne Yeomans (Thematic Digital Competence Centre (Natural and Engineering Sciences))
Johan Lilliestam (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Maria-Esther Vidal (Technische Informationsbibliothek TIB)
Michael Goedicke (University of Duisburg-Essen / paluno)
Oliver Karras (Technische Informationsbibliothek TIB)
Oliver Werth (OFFIS e. V. – Institute for Information Technology)
Philipp Staudt (University of Freiburg)
Reinhard German (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Sebastian Lehnhoff (OFFIS e. V. – Institute for Information Technology)
Sonja Schimmler (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
Sören Auer (Technische Informationsbibliothek TIB)
Stephan Ferenz (University of Oldenburg)
Thomas Strasser (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Thomas Wolgast (University of Oldenburg)
Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg)
Valeria Jana Schwanitz (Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences)
Program
You can find more information on the presentations (incl. detailed schedule), the poster session and the market of consortia below the general schedule.
Friday, 16.2.2024
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Pre-Conference online Networking Event for Women: https://kurzelinks.de/Vitello240217 (will be activated shortly before the networking event) |
Monday, 19.2.2024
| 15:00 – 18:00 | Workshop 1: Databus – A Semantic Metadata Catalog |
Tuesday, 20.2.2024
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | Parallel Workshops: Workshop 2: Making Energy System Research Interoperable With Ontologies (Leibnizsaal) Workshop 3: How to Bring Research Data Management into the Field? (Karmarschraum) Workshop 4: Research Software Engineering in Energy Research: Exploring Frameworks and Practices (Kerstingzimmer) |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Registration |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Start of the Conference: Welcome regards by Prof. Dr. Astrid Nieße, Spokesperson of NFDI4Energy Greetings by Prof. Dr. Joachim Schachtner, State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture Greetings by Prof. Ralph Bruder, President of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, applicant institution of NFDI4Energy |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Keynote: “Data diversity for biodiversity – expectations and realities of building a national research data infrastructure in Germany” by Dr. Barbara Ebert (NFDI4Biodiversity): Slides |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Poster Session 1+ Market of Consortia |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Parallel Tracks A1 and B1 |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner: Ständige Vertretung: Aegidientorplatz 10, 30159 Hannover |
Wednesday, 21.2.2024
Presentation Tracks
The presentation tracks will be organized according to the following topics. The A and B sessions always take place in parallel.
Information for the Presenters
- Each presentation slot will be 30 minutes long, which consists of 20 minutes of presentation time and 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
- To keep schedule, these times are strictly enforced. Please stay in time.
- We will provide you a link to drop your presentation (pdf or pptx).
- We will provide a laptop for presenting.
- For further quesions, please get in touch with us.
Poster Session
The poster session is divided into two timeslots taking place tuesday and wednesday.
Tuesday: 14:30 – 16:00
- F. Wiese, C. Zell-Ziegler, C. Burghardt, Y. Kloos, M. Schäfer: Benchmarking sufficiency assumptions: Comparison of energy and climate scenarios and build-up of a sufficiency potential database
- V. Berkhout, T. Hülsewig: Common European Energy Data Space as tool for better access to metering and device data
- A. Memariani, M. Stappel, M. Glauer, F. Neuhaus, T. Mossakowski: Open Energy Knowledge Graph (OEKG)
- A. Steinert, S. Ferenz, A. Nieße: Comparing Ontologies in Energy Research
- O. Morera, A. Bandam, T. Groß, O. Lünsdorf: Grid Matching Tool
- M. Brunet, A. Sakor, P. Rohde, E. Iglesias, M. Bechara, S. Arndt, M. Begoin, A. Kraft, M. Vidal: The Leibniz Data Manager: Supporting Researchers in the Lifecycle of Research Data
- M. Stappel, F. Neuhaus, H. Foerster, C. Hofmann, L. Emele, C. Hoyer-Klick: Towards a common standard for energy-related domain ontologies — Lessons learned from the OBO Foundry
Wednesday: 10:45 – 12:00
- F. Hoffart, N. Kerker, O. Werth: An Energy Data Service Platform for Whom? Understanding the Needs of the Energy Research Community
- N. Kerker, F. Hoffart, M. Schäfer, J. Lilliestam, C. Speck: Bridging the Gap: An Interdisciplinary (Energy) Research Framework
- M. Schäfer, T. Fürmann, R. Grether, N. Harder, R. Qussous, A. Weidlich: Consumption-based grid emission intensity time series for German federal states
- L. Ruelicke, S. Hofer, V. Berkhout: Sovereign data exchange in the German energy sectorwith energy data-X
- F. Maurer, J. Sejdija, V. Sander: Decentralized energy data storages through an Open Energy Database Server
- L. Fuentes Grau, Z. Pan, A. Monti: Extending Energy Co-Simulation Software VILLAS with Regard to Ontological Structures and Accessibility
- A. Wellßow, P. Smith, E. Widl, E. Veith, J. Kohlisch-Posega, F. Soro, M. Puhan, A. Theil, M. Uslar, R. Zoll : Machine-Readable Expert Knowledge Representation Concept
- K. Stucky, M. Koubaa,N. Liu, A. Schmidt, W. Süß, V. Hagenmeyer: Towards a Conception and the Implementation of FAIR Data Management Tools for the Energy Domain
Information for Poster Session Participants
- The Posters should be in A0, there are no further layout or design requirements.
- We do not provide a poster printing service, please print the poster yourself.
- If you want to send the poster before the conference, you can do so by contacting us.
- We will have a room to store your posters ready during the conference.
- The poster sesson will be on both days, the participants are divided onto the two slots.
- We will hold a 1-minute Madness to start the poster session off, in which you can present your topic shortly. The presentation will be verbally, there is no need to prepare slides.
- For further quesions, please get in touch with us.
Market of Consortia
The Market of Consortia will offer the opportunity to discuss with members of other NFDI consortia and similar organizations regarding lessons learned, cooperation, etc.
The participating consortia and organizations will be:
Information for Market of Consortia Participants
- If you want to send material before the start of the conference you can do so by contacting us.
- We will have a room for you to store some material during the conference.
- We have some standing desks for the materials, you probably have to share some of them.
- We will provide a poster wall for one A0 poster.
- You can bring rollups, but please keep to one rollup per consortia.
- For further quesions, please get in touch with us.